A parked car bomb killed 35 people and wounded over 70 others when it went off near a popular restaurant in the Shula district of northwest Baghdad, police said on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, three Iraqis died and 10 wounded in attacks as police also found the body of man who had been stabbed to death. According to AFP, two of the civilians were killed and five wounded in a roadside bomb in Taji, 30 kilometres north of Baghdad, an interior ministry official said.

In the city of Mosul, a third civilian was killed by unknown gunmen. The body of the fourth was found in the centre of the city.